Re: Best Modules/Components for my site
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I'm contemplating using Equinox for my Church's new web site. Outside of the the wonderful work already present in Joomla and the Rocket Theme, I need to be able to provide four services from the site:
- A Photo Gallery
- The Ability to Handle MP3 versions of our sermons
- A Mailing List/Newletter
- An Event Calendar
I know there are various modules/components available to handle all of these tasks, I would like to find the ones that integrate the best and are the easiest to use. File uploads, management of the data, and entry of content all need to be simple.
I am not opposed to using either version of Joomla, which ever would work the best.
So I ask you: Which modules/components would you use to provide the features I need with the Equinox template as a base?
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
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OK, I think I've settled on Expose' for the Photo Gallery. I've looked at jEvents for the Event Calendar and that probably will work. But I still the other two.
I think the internal mass mailer may work for the short term, but I'm really struggling trying to find a good audio system.
Anyone have a suggestion?
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- Joe K
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I am guessing you don't want the conventional MP3 Jukebox type effect, but rather a place to put a link to the sermon and have it play.
I am certain the first link will do that, but not 100% on the second one.
www.alsacreations.fr/?dewplayer
extensions.joomla.org/component/option,c...nk_id,812/Itemid,35/
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- Terp
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I am in search of a decent newsletter extension, too...would be nice if it could add a field and extend the registration, too, but at this point, anything will do (save the Docman one I see, as it doesn't seem to let me create nice templates and save, reuse, post to the site, etc, etc...a bit limited, though free).
Let me know if you settle on a newsletter component...willing to try anything at this point.
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- Dave Jones
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Not perfect but we use Podcast Suite for publishing the sermon feeds for the podcast.
http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,255/Itemid,35/
As for listening on site I also use All-Videos for the flash player, works with the video too without having to use a different one for each. (I've read report that AV is notoriously slow but I haven't seen any problems that aren't acceptable for my purposes.)
http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,812/Itemid,35/
I list the sermons in a single section with categories based on series. Seems to work so far (13 mos), only caveat is having to ftp the audio then create an article (although I usually just list title etc.)
For newsletters I am using the free version of acajoom news. It's a bit clunky on the design side and I can't reuse templates in the free version but it works as expected to send a monthly newsletter to our ~1200 subscribers. (I think reusable templates are available in the paid ver.) http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,964/Itemid,35/
Above are used with RT Colormatic and !J1.0.12 www.newhopechristianchurch.com
HTH
DJ
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Dave Jones wrote:
Above are used with RT Colormatic and !J1.0.12 www.newhopechristianchurch.com
First of Dave, Great Site!
Second, thanks for the links. I think I'll look into Acajoom for the newsletters and I'm already using the AllVideo module on my personal site. That coupled with the podcast module you mentioned may be the ticket I need.
One question, the ever changing portion of the front page of your site, the pictures that link to blog entries, what is that? I think I may be able to use that too. (Since I'm "borrowing", I might as well borrow, right? ;D )
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Terp wrote:
Let me know if you settle on a newsletter component...willing to try anything at this point.
I will. I may simply setup the mass mailer to distribute a PDF version of our print newsletter, just to get started. Depending on how well Acajoom (recommened here) works out, I may change to that.
Kevin
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- Brandon Paschal
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Beautiful and very functional site. Inspiration for our soon to be converted to joomla site (
www.solidword.org
). Interestingly, for our films business we had issues setting up expose. Were there many problems on your end?
Also, thanks for your sharing what modules worked to make your site as functional as it is. All the best,
--Brandon
www.p-films.com
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